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WCP6395

Letter (WCP6395.7393)

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28, ALEXANDRA PARK ROAD,

MUSWELL HILL,

LONDON N.10.

14th May, 1929.

Dear Sir,

I am much obliged for your kind reply to my request.

The passages I asked for are

(i) "How ocean depths are produced"

pp. [pages] 191-196; Chapter XII.

(ii) From "This completes my work as a connected argument …. to "The

following beautiful lines ……. for quoting them here" & including the

Tennyson quotation.

pp. [pages] 263-268; Chapter XVI.

References to the 1912 "New & Cheaper Edition"2.

I remain, | dear Sir, | Yours very truly, | E. M. Palser3 [signature]

4May 15th

Gave consent for these passages to be printed in "Practical Course of Precis Writing"5.

W.G.W.6

1
The page is numbered [WP16/1/52] in pencil in the top RH corner.
2
Wallace, A. R. (1912) Man's Place in the Universe 4th Edition, London, Chapman & Hall. (First published 1903).
3
Palser, E. M. (No dates found) Senior Master at Westminster City School. He published a number of educational books, mainly literary commentaries and questionnaires.
4
Palser, E. M. (1929) View Larger ImageA Practical Course of Précis Writing Book II London, University of London Press. (No record found of proposed Book III having been published).
5
Annotation in the recipients hand written in ink diagonally across the bottom LH corner of the page.
6
Wallace, William Greenell (1871-1951) Electrical engineer, second son and third child of ARW.

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Transcribed by O'Dell, Sandra [2018-08-15]

Please cite as “WCP6395,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP6395